Thousands of Twitter users are seeing unexpected messsages from hacked online friends promoting a weight loss supplement that will, allegedly, “get the beach body you’ve always wanted”.
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The messages link to what pretends to be a news website, but is really designed to promote an Acai Berry “miracle diet” marketed as “Power Slim”. The product claims to have been seen in the pages of Women’s Health, Elle, Marie Claire, Oprah, Cosmopolitan and other magazines.
If the miracle diet pills are doing so well at getting media coverage, it seems strange to me that it also has to be promoted through spam via compromised Twitter accounts – but there you go.
It’s currently unclear how the Twitter accounts have been hacked. It could be that the users’ passwords have been compromised, similar to another Acai Berry spam campaign we saw on Twitter at the end of last year following the Gawker password breach.
If your account on Twitter has been compromised, make sure you change your password to a non-dictionary word – and be sure to also change any other online accounts where you might be using the same password. Far too many people use the same passwords on multiple sites, which obviously increases your chances of becoming hacked.
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